KLEIN, William.

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Rome. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the photographer on the contents page, " Rome Sweet Rome, William Klein". The French edition precedes all others. Rome is the second in Klein's series of city-focused photography titles and includes quotes from renowed Italian artists such as Alberto Moravia and Pier Paolo Pasolini. "A new-born Rome, historical synthesis where classic is baroque gothic, and gothic modern-style; where a mad mediterranean language is spoken, a paleocatholic, high latin, Mozarabic, Levantine double-talk; an often sun-less Rome, where catacombs are garages and tombs bungalows; a Rome, at last, neither provincial nor neo-realist - this is Klein's Rome - and mine, too. How strange that we needed a New Yorker to discover us!" (Pier Paolo Pasolini, blurb).

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